Irish Witchcraft and DemonologySeymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt)
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Irish Witchcraft and Demonology
Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt)
Demonology; Witchcraft -- Ireland
"Mr. Wood, a Minister, being likewise sworn and examined, deposeth,
That having heard of the stones dropped and thrown at the Maid, and of
her Fits, and meeting with the Maid's Brother, he went along with him
to the Maid, and found her in her Fit, crying out against Gammer
Newton, that she prick'd and hurt her. And when she came to herself he
asked her what had troubled her; and she said Gammer Newton. And the
Deponent saith, Why, she was not there. _Yes_, said she, _I saw her by
my bedside_. The Deponent then asked her the original of all, which
she related from the time of her begging the Beef, and after kissing,
and so to that time. That then they caused the Maid to be got up, and
sent for Florence Newton, but she refused to come, pretending she was
sick, though it indeed appeared she was well. Then the Mayor of
Youghall came in, and spoke with the Maid, and then sent again and
caused Florence Newton to be brought in, and immediately the Maid fell
into her Fit far more violent, and three times as long as at any other
time, and all the time the Witch was in the Chamber the Maid cried out
continually of her being hurt here and there, but never named the
Witch: but as soon as she was removed, then she cried out against her
by the name of Gammer Newton, and this for several times. And still
when the Witch was out of the Chamber the Maid would desire to go to
Prayers, and he found good affections of her in time of Prayer, but
when the Witch was brought in again, though never so privately,
although she could not possibly, as the Deponent conceives, see her,
she would be immediately senseless, and like to be strangled, and so
would continue till the Witch was taken out, and then though never so
privately carried away she would come again to her senses. That
afterwards Mr. Greatrix, Mr. Blackwall, and some others, who would
need satisfy themselves in the influence of the Witch's presence,
tried it and found it several times.
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